Heart disease may only be a matter of time for those with healthy obesity
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - April 24, 2018 - People who are 30 pounds or more overweight may want to slim down a bit even if they...
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Significant advances detected in knowledge about renal cancer
Credit: Ed Uthman Cell, the most prestigious international journal in the field of biology, is today publishing a set of three papers on renal cancer....
Aging: The natural stress reliever for many women
ANN ARBOR -- While some research suggests that midlife is a dissatisfying time for women, other studies show that women report feeling less stressed and...
What if you could know that your mild cognitive impairment wouldn’t progress
(IOS Press) Researchers from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon found that, in some mild cognitive impairment patients, real neuropsychological stability over a...
Technology used to map Mars now measuring effect of treatment on tumors
Credit: Paul Tar A machine learning approach for assessing images of the craters and dunes of Mars, which was developed at The University of Manchester,...
Commonly prescribed heartburn drug linked to pneumonia in older adults
Researchers at the University of Exeter have found a statistical link between pneumonia in older people and a group of medicines commonly used to neutralise...
Music lessens pain and anxiety in patients undergoing surgery
Music can reduce the anxiety and pain of invasive surgery, according to an analysis of all relevant randomized controlled trials published since 1980. Ninety-two trials...
ESCEO-IOF Pierre Meunier Young Scientist Award presented to Dr. Emmanuel Biver
Emmanuel Biver MD, PhD, of the Division of Bone Diseases Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine has been presented with the 2018 ESCEO-IOF Pierre...
A non-coding RNA lasso catches proteins in breast cancer cells
Credit: Evgenia Ntini A Danish-German research team has shown that not only the where and when of long non-coding RNA expression is important for their...
Scientists unearth vital link between fat, immunity and heat regulation
Credit: Lydia Lynch, Trinity College Dublin Scientists have just made a surprising discovery involving fat and special immune cells that live within it -- it...
Stem cells from adults function just as well as those from embryos
Donor age does not appear to influence the functionality of stem cells derived from adult body tissues, concludes a new review. The analysis of research...
Flavins keep a handy helper in their pocket
Credit: Source: Robin Teufel, Raspudin Saleem-Batcha In human cells, vitamins often serve as the precursors of "cofactors" - non-proteins which are an essential part of...
Artificial leaf as mini-factory for medicine
Credit: Bart van Overbeeke Using sunlight for sustainable and cheap production of, for example, medicines. The 'mini-factory' in the form of a leaf that chemical...
$11.2 million federal grant to support microorganism and disease research
Credit: UofL It is well-established that the community of organisms inside our bodies perform vital roles in digestion, production of critical metabolites, controlling the immune...
Soccer heading — not collisions — cognitively impairs players
April 24, 2018--(BRONX, NY)--Worse cognitive function in soccer players stems mainly from frequent ball heading rather than unintentional head impacts due to collisions, researchers at...